Guild Ball Kick Off Spring Clean

I am in no way an expert. But you can’t always get the best results from experts, after all… Breaking it down, an Ex is something that broke your heart and a Spert is a drip under pressure.

There’s no real trick to it, you just have to get used to painting straight lines.

My method for these guys is to prepare the cloth, by highlighting high areas in Steel Legion Drab. Almost all of this will be lost under other colours, but i still think it helps in the long run.

Then i paint two thin Wraithbone White lateral parallel lines as close to each other as i could. (fig. 1) I then used the Flesh Eater Red Contrast Paint for the first horizontal lines. Leaving enough space to be able to add the second horizontal line with Orc Flesh Contrast Paint. (fig. 2)

Then i go back and carefully add Wyldwood Brown Contrast Paint between the two parallel lateral white lines. (fig. 3)

At the end of this i found things slightly glossy, especially the Wyldwood, and kinda looks painted on rather than woven. So i knocked the whole thing back a tone with come Athonian Camoshade. (Fig. 4) Once this is dry everything seems far more natural looking and tied together, but you can lose some of the contrast and it looks quite dull. I picked some high spots to try some careful highlighting with Zandri Dust on the dulled down white lateral lines and some Mephiston Red on the horizontal red lines. (Fig. 5)

Where there were large stiched areas i tried to twist the pattern of the tartan to show it wasn’t a perfect fit.

Don’t be afraid to do corrections, but try to complete the steps upto the shading part and see what the errors look like after the Camoshade has hidden any minor errors.

• The biggest tip is to watch the consistency of the paint on your brush.
• You don’t need an insanely thin brush you just need the paint to be relatively thin and flowing easily from your brush.
• Start by painting straight lines on your thumb nail perhaps?
• And always strive to get a nice point to your brush and don’t put tons of paint on the brush at a time.
• Be patient. Not only in the slow progress of the paint job, but also be patient with the learning curve that you are on, trying to accomplish something that even great painters say is a challenge.